Financial Tribune - Justice Shares are shares of government-owned companies that were given to the six lowest income deciles of Iranians ten years ago. They could not trade the shares and received a small part of the dividends in the last two years The initiative to ease restrictions on trading the so-called Justice Shares will allow Justice Shares ...

Financial Tribune - The government is to launch the first exchange-traded fund to offer its remaining shares in banks and financial institutions, as part of a comprehensive plan to downsize and reduce its role in the economy. According to Alireza Saleh, head of the Iranian Privatization Organization, the first ETF, which comprises government shares ...

Tehran Times - Iranian Finance and Economic Affairs Minister Farhad Dejpasand said the government should amend its policies and methods of setting the prices and transferring the shares in the process of privatization, IRIB reported. Making the remarks during a ceremony on Wednesday for introducing the new head of Iranian Privatization Organization ...

Iran has lowered data transit fee for its neighboring countries by 20-90 percent in a bid to encourage them to communicate via Iran, the Fars News Agency quoted Iranian telecommunication official Mehdi Khodaee as saying. The fee has be decreased 20-90 percent according to the length of route, the used capacity, and the duration of use, he added. On ...